The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
But hawks will rob the tender joys
That bless the little lintwhite's nest;
And frost will blight the fairest flowers,
And love will break the soundest rest.
Often, I would paint from a photograph, or from a magazine layout. Photography has taught me to see shapes. Before, I only saw a pretty flower. Now, I see shadows and things behind the flower that form a special shape. A macro lens allows me to photograph the things most people never see.
The organic story is now broadening far beyond the health benefits of pesticide-free foods. Organic farming, whether asparagus, strawberries, cotton or our own beautiful flowers, helps protect Mother Nature -- it's that simple.
O Earth All bathed with blood and tears, yet never Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.
When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.
Their names I know not, But to every weed its flower, And loveliness.
Flowers are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and siting in the shade.
No wreaths please especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by his old clothes a few books perhaps.
Sprucing up the front porch is pretty critical. New paint is good and placing urns of flowers around the door, if the season is appropriate.
All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.
Most gardeners don't need me telling them that it's good to have year-round interest. You want a garden with as many flowers, for as long as possible, and that's what the pollinators want too. My advice is to garden just to suit yourself and the bees and the butterflies will be perfectly happy.
It is only the amateur gardener like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.
Ah, yet would God this flesh of mine might be Where air might wash and long leaves cover me Where tides of grass break into foam of flowers, Or where the winds feet shine along the sea.
I want real flowers, perennials which not only grow and change and die, but also rise again and astonish me. A garden shouldn't just bloom and look pretty it should develop like the rest of life. Otherwise it, and we, live only to be spaded under.
The primal duties shine aloft, like stars The charities that soothe and heal and bless Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers.
Work for some good, be it ever so slowly Cherish some flower, be it ever so lowly Labor - all labor is noble and holy.
We are a full service florist with fresh-cut flowers, silk arrangements, balloons, table decorations, cake-a-grams, plush, greeting cards and candy.
Since Iris is the Greek goddess for the Messenger of Love, her sacred flower is considered the symbol of communication and messages. Greek men would often plant an iris on the graves of their beloved women as a tribute to the goddess Iris, whose duty it was to take the souls of women to the Elysian fields.
Once I heard and answered all the questions
of the crickets,
And joined the crying of each falling dying
flake of snow,
Once I spoke the language of the flowers.
They are here, I think they are going to love Love Field. We sent them over some flowers and treats to welcome them here. I think they will love it and its just competition as usual.
Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
May we be good to plants and flowers. May we take fine care of the places where they grow. Earth won't have to shake and flood and burn so fiercely then. The world will be more wideawake and tuneful, a place where children all beings can bloom.
Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.
If we do not stop the bomb who will take care of the flowers.
Especially now with the boho influence, the hippie and gypsy looks -- they have Latin roots. Embroidery, embellishment, color, flowers and beading are important to Latinas and to Latin American history.
Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.
Flowers do not force their way with great strife. Flowers open to perfection slowly in the sun.... Don't be in a hurry about spiritual matters. Go step by step, and be very sure.
Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.
I think she would greatly appreciate it. When she died, she didn't want flowers. She wanted money put into the park.
A root is a flower that disdains fame.
Whosoever offers Me a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or water with devotion I accept and eat the offering of devotion by the pure-hearted.
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.
She went as quiet as the Dew
From an Accustomed flower.
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.
So when in tears
The love of years
Is wasted like the snow,
And the fine fibrils of its life
By the rude wrong of instant strife
Are broken at a blow
Within the heart
Do springs upstart
Of which it doth now know,
And strange, sweet dreams,
Like silent streams
That from new fountains overflow,
With the earlier tide
Of rivers glide
Deep in the heart whose hope has died--
Quenching the fires its ashes hide,--
Its ashes, whence will spring and grow
Sweet flowers, ere long,
The rare and radiant flowers of song!
As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.
The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.
Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless To long for the moon while looking on the rain, to lower the blinds and be unaware of the passing of the spring - these are even more deeply moving. Branches about to blossom or gardens strewn with flowers are worthier of our admiration.
Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
What we have to do is increase the amount of water from the vase solution to the flower. If we can get these things right, we're going to do a lot better.
Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.
We won for the first time in Harare, but you have to remember the previous Zimbabwe here consisted of people like Andy and Grant Flower, Ray Price and others,
Little flower, but if I could understand, what you are, root and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.
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